An Ontario woman has launched a formal complaint against Air Canada after she says the airline humiliated her during her trip to Alberta.

Christine 'Coco' Roschaert was travelling from Ottawa to Edmonton when the airline kicked her off the flight after she wasn't cleared to fly alone. Roschaert, who is born deaf, also has retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that has stripped her of peripheral vision and eventually will leave her blind.

The 33 year old said her job as the director of Nepal Deafblind Project and a motivational speaker, has her travelling around the world and this was the first time in years of flying that anyone has stopped her from travelling due to her medical conditions.

According to Roschaert 's account of the incident, she had cleared security and boarded her flight at Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier Airport, only to be pulled off her flight by manager with Air Canada 20 minutes later. Roschaert was told she could not fly to Edmonton since she did not have medical clearance to travel alone.

Air Canada's policy has long maintained customers with severe audio and visual impairments travel with an attendant so passengers and airline staff can communicate clearly.

Roschaert says she's flown on Air Canada many times in the past without an attendant as the service would forfeit her right to travel alone. She was eventually let on another flight with a stopover in Calgary where Roschaert says she was greeted with attendants who weren't trained to help those with disabilities.

Roschaert, for her part, said she'll continue to travel alone, just not with Air Canada.

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